“MADE IN GERMANY."

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1260, 23 April 1896, Page 39

“MADE IN GERMANY."

“Tho young man in a hurry” i. mg the reward of his haste in more v a -n. one. Among others lie lias dire - tion in various quarters to the of young Germans into England, o. ■ • y London, as a London letter show. ; In the February number of the .• . - 1 Review, Mr Arthur Shadwell coni: . n article on the Germans in Lamin',>. ■ • -. pears from the census returns th:q ' ; ' •!. there were only 95fifi Germans iv !' ! n London; in 18111 there were 2d,: 1 . \ in the other parts of England tin re • Gormans returned in 1851, and {!--.• v. 50,539 in .1891. As to their euq.R , domestic servants have incr. 1 ';u 1825 in 1871 to 3709 in 1891 ; void ; ■ m.yn increased from 339 to 1589 ; butchers A :u 375 to .1309; and tailors from 1075 in 2 h The German generally comes owr : : a young man, and takes a situation with a view of setting up for himself as a mi as he has acquired sufficient knowledge and a little capital. Then he begins in a v, ry small way, and in order to get on employs bis own count rymeii, whose services he can obtain for a time exceedingly cheap, either because they are new-comers, ignorant of the language ami helpless, or b.-eause limy have failed to get; any other ompL.ymi i;t. As time goes on many of these in tarn d up for themselves, and thus a, c--:,i i.-,m supply, which tends to get turgor ami larger, is attracted over into tho par; iced, r tradm; affected. For instance, seme years ago German bakers 1 argali to be employed for baking fancy bread. In eour.m . f time they blossomed into small employers, drove out ail competitors by sweating their own countrymen, until they lane now monopolised the East End business, and have nearly doubled in numbers within the I:.-;!; twenty years. Just the same with I'm butch'-rs, furriers, tailors,am! hairdressers. Sonmof these Lade* are further aweii d by the failures —the young follows wlm c on;.,!; pass t li**ir £7 •*"<••* /Wo mm and arc. im ~-d oil lo England to sink or swim, as ~-nr own failures are sent to Australia. A Gw.-can publisher in Loudon told me that w . day lie me), five old Luiver.dty i'i i.■,><!,s in Logout’.-; Park, and everyou" had !>.;, ,u - a baker. Ilamirc.-ving- is another refng-- for the if- 1 1 1 11 1." •; waiting in restaur .ids :l third. Tho increase <>f Gcnnaus, I lierefore, doe ; net repre.-ent any addii ion ; o : i.e indu -trial life..;' the country in lie- -. m of siy oi-,! shill or new find.- . doexcept ions are a. few men emu! ,y ! h ; ;im high-cla ■; bakeries and tim.-.e , i d with the fur trude. In all nth- r ■ tlmy are u; i lUe-tly infelior ..--if ua d only employed (j itJ cheap -l;-, i• anioiKct work. \Ve might r-";,:;.rs llr.il > no omi -ion to ; cud ,he ic- r Kiis.-'.el-’s - pc; ,•' l l ,i a! 1 * 0"- e:q.-- ■ -y, Ihoied: i", has already iiei.-a t.wia. • -, Wellington and" Ameer n.ldro.- . u The Am,lrian gunboat Albafcrcss, v ; on a Koioiitilie and training cruise, Sydney a few days ago. It is Urn intvu.i - cl the Commander, (.’apttin von L-li'einiym mv coaling and refitting, to come on to New Zealand.